I felt I had to blog about this because I’ve tried to do this twice in the last 12 months and each time the Internet has given me some wrong information that has led me to spend a frustrating hour puzzling as to why it didn’t work.

To allow a Windows computer to print over the network to a USB printer connected to an Apple Mac (step 5 is the important bit):

1. Configure your printer as normal on the Mac.
2. Turn on printer sharing: System Preferences->Sharing
3. On the Windows PC, install the Bonjour printer wizard from Apple.
4. Run the wizard and select your printer.
5. When prompted to choose a printer driver, choose the default of generic/postscript. If you attempt to use the Windows printer driver which came with your printer, the PC will think that the job has successfully been sent to the printer, but the job will in fact disappear into the ether!

And you are done — Macs are that easy.